Fault Quotes - page 4

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault. (Erica Jong)
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation. View quote
George Santayana
The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it-well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses. View quote
Margaret Fuller
We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders.”. View quote
Max Brooks
If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault. View quote
Joe Strummer
If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law. View quote
W. S. Gilbert
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? (Yogi Berra)
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools [in Internet Explorer] with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault. View quote
Bruce Schneier
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. View quote
Walter Bagehot
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely. View quote
Lewis Carroll
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving. View quote
Edward de Bono
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. View quote
Rumi
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. View quote
Rumi
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. View quote
Jerome
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source. (Jerome)
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. View quote
Denis Diderot
... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine. View quote
Chien-Shiung Wu
If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer. View quote
Lenny Bruce
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson